A rare piece of writing from Durrell Bishop: What if there was a generic tool to link the digital and the physical worlds? A way to touch an object, to select and see its digital augmentation? It would just send a message via your chosen device: laptop, mobile, home wifi et al. The equivalent of [...]
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A phone to save us from our screens?
Microsoft has two new ads, anticipating their upcoming Windows Phone 7 launch. The first is an almost post-apocalyptic vision of humanity stuck with their heads in their mobile devices: Here’s David Webster, chief strategy officer in Microsoft’s central marketing group, explaining their anti-screen strategy: “Our sentiment was that if we could have an insight to [...]
11 October 2010
CCD and computational photography
A few links on imaging and computation: I’ve concluded that the promise of RFID was eclipsed by another technology out there that’s poised to become more and more disruptive, not only to RFID, but to a host of technologies, and that’s the CCD. from CCD by Joe Gregorio. Via BERG. Cameras might allow a photographer [...]
18 March 2010
Practising tomorrows
It takes ubiquitous computing as a significant case study because the future orientation practised in ubiquitous computing research and development is emblematic of the perpetual technological forecasting in which humanity engages. “Practising tomorrows? Ubiquitous computing and the politics of anticipation” a PhD by Sam Kinsley. via Anne
2 March 2010
Augmentia
Anselm lays out the emerging issues with Augmented Reality (AR). In doing so he relates it to a whole host of known and unknown problems associated with ubiquitous computing, semantic publishing and data platforms. Below are some clippings of bits that seem particularly insightful: It puts own embodiment at risk. And whomsoever can mitigate that [...]
2 February 2010
Touch
Early in 2005 I drafted a project together with the Oslo School of Architecture & Design that was designed to look at Near Field Communication (NFC) with an interaction design and user-centred perspective. In December 2005 the project was funded in full by the Research Council of Norway. So since March 2006 we have been setting up the project and conducting preliminary exploratory research work. You can see our ongoing process on the project weblog (and pick up the RSS feed too).
4 September 2006
Augmented reality experiments
A year ago, Even and I played around for an afternoon with ARtoolkit, an open-source application for handling Augmented Reality objects: physical markings that when processed through a video camera can be augmented with 3D digital objects.
29 August 2006
The address book desk
For the last couple of weeks I have been experimenting with tagging personal space with NFC. This started by embedding RFID tags in my desk, to use it as an information surface for contacts, SMSes and links.
16 December 2005
Nokia 3220 with NFC
Thanks to Matt and Nokia I’ve had a prototype 3220 NFC shell on loan for a few weeks. It’s the second Nokia phone to feature an RFID reader and writer for ‘Near Field Communication’ the technology that I’ve been getting excited about for mobile services, stickering and touch.
6 December 2005
Graphic language for touch
This work explores the visual link between information and physical things, specifically around the emerging use of the mobile phone to interact with RFID or NFC. It was a presentation and poster at Design Engaged, Berlin on the 11th November 2005.
Download the icons (PDF, 721KB, Gif preview).
21 November 2005
Design Engaged 2005
Here are my raw notes from the three days of excellent conversation, urban exploration and brainstorming of Design Engaged 2005.
20 November 2005
Tangible and social interaction
On the 12th January 2005 I gave two lectures here in Oslo on the theme of tangible and social interaction. The presentation is a 1.9mb pdf, and my notes are below. I’m posting this in response to Matt Jones’ and Chris Heathcote’s presentation at ETech (notes), which covers a lot of the same ground.
18 March 2005
Selected Flickr
